People are generally disrespectful, two-faced, hypocritical,
Generally, they are not.
and otherwise not to be trusted without extreme scrutiny.
Yeah, given the opportunity most people would take advantage of you.
Generally, they are not [disrespectful, two-faced, hypocritical] ... given the opportunity most people would take advantage of you.
Exploiting someone who has done nothing to wrong you is a petty, two-faced, disrespectful, and shameful act in and of itself that degrades the quality of life for the victim.
You are contradicting yourself. Don't be a hypocrite.
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People behave to hold the standards you set for them, you set poor ones (disrespectful, two-faced, hypocritical) so you get just this. Try the opposite for a month.
Based on my experiences in the last 10 years, I could not have possibly made a more untrue statement if I tried.
Historically, from elementary school all the way until my sophomore year in high school, I was always striving to be the nicest person I possibly could to everyone. All that ever got me was bullied, ridiculed, depressed, and stabbed in the back (figuratively) by someone who was at the time my best (and only) friend for 3 years.
Ever visited 1.1 recently? Log into any of the lettard servers for half an hour and tell me exactly how nice any of those cunts treat you if you try to start a friendly conversation. I've played Tremulous regularly since 2010. At least half of the playerbase is still a cesspool to this day.
A 48,000 Watt variable laboratory power supply - my current electronics and metalworking project that I have focused
huge amounts of my time and energy on:

I have spent at least 100 hours and hundreds of dollars planning, drafting, experimenting, testing, purchasing, and now building this project up to this point. I have put all of my knowledge and experience into it. Every day I work on it, I put the absolute most care into perfecting every single aspect about it.
And yet people have the
gall to insult it and me by saying things like "you shouldn't spend so much money on a stupid doll-house", or "what is that, an overpriced solar hot-dog cooker?".
No, in my experience almost
every day, 90-98% of all people I deal with end up being a total waste of my time, and an unnecessary burden for me to concern myself with. I don't know if it's different where you come from, or if you just have
much lower standards than me, but the only thing most of the human race has ever done for
me is make me absolutely certain that I don't like, trust, or have respect most other people.
Pleasant humans are an exception to the rule... it takes a lot of time and patience to sift through all the shit to get to the decent ones.
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P.S. Here's a sample of the care and competence that *other* people put into their own projects:
